We believe that sickness has no boundaries, and compassion has no limits.

The KIS Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to improving the social health and quality of life for children and families living with Sickle Cell Disease. We are firm believers that individuals and groups should not simply wait for SCD to affect them personally for them to get involved and make a difference. It is this proactive outlook combined with a community service-based infrastructure that has made KIS Foundation a successful non-profit throughout the years.

Learn about Sickle cell disease

Take time to familiarize and learn about the details and history behind Sickle Cell Disease.

The Celebrity Bowling Challenge stresses the need to educate the public about Sickle Cell Disease, and to stimulate continued dialogue about how it is spread, its debilitating effects, ways of prevention bone marrow transplant surgery, and the need to get tested now!

The Regency West presents The KIS Foundation's "5th Annual Evening of Comedy". A special night of joyful laughter benefiting the programs and services of The KIS Foundation, Inc., and Raising Awareness About Sickle Cell Disease.

By the time the rapper Prodigy sang what would become the most famous lyric of his decades-long musical career — “I’m only 19, but my mind is old” — he had already suffered through greater physical pain than most people will experience in a lifetime.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in nearly 20 years for sickle cell, an inherited disease in which abnormally shaped red blood cells can't properly carry oxygen throughout the body, which can cause severe pain and organ damage.

Acting on a motion by its chairman, Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Board of Supervisors awarded a scroll to pioneering hematologist Dr. Yutaka Niihara, whose research recently led to a breakthrough in the treatment of a painful blood condition that primarily affects African American communities.